Robert Seguso, Tennis Player, Curses To God As Thunder Roars (VIDEO)

Thou shall not take the Lord's name in vain. But if thou do, thou better be ready to get an answer.

During a doubles tennis match, Olympic athlete Robert Seguso curses to the heavens and his outburst is quickly met with a thunderous roar.

Coincidence or divine intervention? Either way, the powerful response elicited laughter from spectators, who were undoubtedly delighted by the unlikely chain of events.

The video was first uploaded to YouTube in 2007, but nature's reply to Seguso's cry continues to entertain viewers year after year.

Via BuzzFeed

Comments

[TomMartin]

07:25 PM on 02/03/2012

He is an Olympic athlete? Never heard of him, and I am a tennis fan.

[fds]

11:43 PM on 01/31/2012

This is a stupid article. It's rain storm.

[ajbernhard]

12:06 PM on 01/31/2012

God? Coincidence? Certainly, a philosophic conundrum. Call it what you will, without empirical evidence, it's probably not wise to jump to conclusions as to what happened, here. For all we know, the thunder could have been the sound of Thor missing a spare.

[TheWM]

03:35 PM on 01/31/2012

"God? Coincidenc­e? Certainly, a philosophi­c conundrum."

Yes, a real toughy. I'm going to go waaaay out on a limb here and say that it was a discharge of atmospheric electricity, having more to do with the weather than with Seguso saying "naughty" words.

[TomMartin]

07:26 PM on 02/03/2012

Or maybe Thor killed some Christian for cursing him, Thor, with the thunderbolt, after all, the tennis player was not injured.

[eliasasm]

11:00 AM on 01/31/2012

The meaning of taking the Lord's name in vain is not swearing. It is doing inappropriate things to others in the name of God. That would be religion et al.

[TheWM]

11:55 AM on 01/31/2012

Ah, another person who looks as if he may believe in God -- please forgive me if that's an overly-hasty assumption -- but at the same time claims to oppose religion.

[eliasasm]

01:14 PM on 01/31/2012

Forgiven. OMG I don't believe in religion but I just forgave someone! What's with that?

[Hillbilly49]

09:48 AM on 01/31/2012

"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."



— Francis Bacon

[Chris Hollier]

11:31 PM on 01/30/2012

Seems Thor was happy that someone was cursing a false god...

[Abnormal Wrench]

11:16 PM on 01/30/2012

Seriously?

[SKamath]

10:00 PM on 01/30/2012

I realize that the anecdote is humorous, but this is precisely how superstition works. By cherry-picking coincidence.

[A-Superstitionist]

01:52 AM on 01/31/2012

Exactly.

[surferlaments]

09:58 PM on 01/30/2012

that was great.

[WesStrikesBack]

09:03 PM on 01/30/2012

Once in 5 years and the GodSquad are still passing it around.

I got laid by an immensely hot young lady once while ditching church, so does that cancel this out?

[BoscoTheTerrible]

08:20 PM on 01/30/2012

Coincidence. The angels just happened to be bowling at that exact moment.

[surferlaments]

09:58 PM on 01/30/2012

call jerry lewis, he is looking for a clown.

[KrautMan]

03:22 AM on 01/31/2012

You should know.

[Natassha Halverson]

01:35 PM on 01/30/2012

I say GD a lot and not once has the thunder crackled immediately afterwards. Coincidence.

[Kathleen Wood]

12:23 PM on 01/30/2012

Within the complete numerical data set of athletes cursing the heavens, the eventual thunderclap is not just coincidence, but a statistical probability - no divine intervention necessary. www.killingmother.blogspot.com.